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Date: 4/10/02
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SOUTHEASTERN HOSTS ANNUAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE FESTIVAL
HAMMOND -- The St. Paul School in Covington and Baton Rouge Magnet High School
shared top honors at the Southeastern Louisiana University Foreign Languages Department's
20th
annual Foreign Language Festival.
St. Paul's was named the Best Overall School in Spanish while Baton Rouge Magnet
earned the highest honors in French at the festival, held Tuesday, April 9, at the Southeastern
University Center. Episcopal High School was named "Best Overall School" in Spanish in the
Tier 2 (schools with less than 600 students) category.
More than 700 students from 25 schools earned first, second and third prizes for
competing individually in Spanish and French poetry, prose and extemporaneous speaking
categories and as groups in music and plays.
Special guests at the festival were Alberto Puentes, consul general of Mexico; Jean
Xavier Broager of the French Consulate in New Orleans, and Ducore Alexis and Steve O'Neill of
Prometour, an international travel agency that donated an airline ticket to Madrid, Spain, to the
winner of a new festival writing category.
Dominique Ingrid Thomas of De La Salle High School received the award for first place
in Spanish writing. Prometour will award a similar prize for a French writing category at the
2003 festival, said Southeastern foreign languages professor Luz Escobar, the festival's director.
In addition to Baton Rouge Magnet and the St. Paul School, participating schools were
Hahnville High School, Live Oak High School, Springfield High School, Archbishop Chapelle
High School, St. Joseph's Academy, Bowling Green School, L.W. Higgins High School, John
Ehret High School, Catholic High School, Mandeville High School, Pearl River High School, De
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La Salle High School, Ursuline Academy, Mount Carmel Academy, Central High School, LSU
Laboratory School, Hammond High School, Grace King High School, St. Mary's Academy, St.
Charles Catholic High School, St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School, Destrehan High
School and Episcopal High School.
In the French music category, school winners were Baton Rouge Magnet, first; St.
Thomas Aquinas, second; and St. Paul's, third. The French play or drama winners were Baton
Rouge Magnet High School, first; Live Oak High School, second; Episcopal High School, third.
In Spanish music, St. Thomas Aquinas High School took first place; the St. Paul School,
second, and Central High School, third. LSU Laboratory School was first in Spanish play or
drama, with Mount Carmel Academy, second, and L.W. Higgins High School, third.
Individual winners, listed by school, were:
Archbishop Chapelle High School: Fallon Walker, first place, Spanish Prose III;
Kristen Williams, first place, Spanish Prose IV; Amy Dawsey, second place, Spanish Prose
Native Speaker; Christina Pettus, second place, Spanish Poetry Native Speaker; Juanita Lado,
second place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking III; Mia Farmer, third place, Spanish Prose I;
Kristen Hof, third place, Spanish Prose II; Melissa Bucher, third place, French Poetry I; Danielle
Patterson, second place; French Extemporaneous Speaking IV; Stephanie Conzonere, third place,
French Prose II.
Baton Rouge Magnet High School: Erin Barnes, first place, French Prose III; Venicia
Gray, first place, French Poetry II; Sarra Guiss‚, first place, French Poetry Native Speaker;
Alison Landry, first place, French Extemporaneous Speaking IV; Iedra Hills, second place,
French Poetry I; Brandon Glynn, second place, French Poetry III; Iyengar Vijeth, third place,
French Extemporaneous Speaking I; Monty Aghazadeh, Blake Durousseau, Erin Sanders,
Lynette Wright, Brandon Glynn, Thomas Gomez, Sarah Handal, Hieu Hoang, Barbara Harlan,
Sanmati Rao, Madison Hoover, Ali Baghian, first place, French Play; Lynette Wright, first place,
French Music.
Catholic High School: Robbie diBenedetto, first place, French Extemporaneous
Speaking II; Taylor Bergeron, first place, French Extemporaneous Speaking III; Stephen Kearny,
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second place, French Prose II.
Central High School: Jennifer Johnson, first place, Spanish Prose II; Brittney Stevens,
first place, Spanish Poetry II; Jessica Ruiz, first place, French Poetry I; Christy Brown, third
place, French Prose I; Angela Meadows, third place, Spanish Music.
De La Salle High School: Kristin Hanlon, second place, Spanish Poetry Native Speaker;
Eliana McCaffery, second place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking Native Speaker; Katherine
Bertrand, first place, French Extemporaneous Speaking Native Speaker.
Destrehan High School: Brittany Guidry, third place, French Poetry III.
Episcopal High School: Rachel Boate, first place, French Prose II; Genny Davis, first
place, French Prose IV; Meg Coady, second place, French Poetry IV; Douglas Harper, second
place, French Extemporaneous Speaking I; Michael White, second place, French
Extemporaneous Speaking II; Bill Burke, second place, French Extemporaneous Speaking III;
Vanessa Begat, third place, French Extemporaneous Speaking Native Speaker; Ben Bowers,
Elizabeth Feigley, Austin Fenn, Katie Freeman, Martha Claire Hollis, Sarah Miletello, Megan
Neff, Kristin Robertson, Andrew Schutte, Chad Berg, third place, French Play.
Grace King High School: Afshan Rasheed, second place, Spanish Extemporaneous
Speaking I; Irena Sigel, second place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking II.
John Ehret High School: Phylicia Goodman, first place, Spanish Poetry I; Charmaine
Jackson, third place, Spanish Prose III; David Roux, first place; French Extemporaneous
Speaking I; Kiandra Moore, third place, French Prose III; Glen Robert, third place, French
Extemporaneous Speaking II; Chris Goins, French Extemporaneous Speaking IV.
Hahnville High School: Lindsey Brou, third place, Spanish Poetry II; Caitlin Fysh, third
place, French Poetry II.
Live Oak High School: Erin Hopkins, first place, French Poetry III; Travis Rushing,
second place, French Prose I; Travis LeBlanc, second place, French Prose III; Rachael Bryant,
third place, French Prose IV; Brittany McClure, Nicole Easley, Hope Hammond, Amber Hughes,
Kerry Craig, Richard Aucoin, Jessica Matcher, Erica Paline, Kaily Boyle, Glenn Howes,
Courtney Pierce, Jeanne Bass, Erica Taylor, Meghan Hebert, Erica Scarbrough, Larry Shavers,
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Katie Copeland, second place, French Play.
LSU Laboratory School: Caroline Greene, second place, Spanish Extemporaneous
Speaking IV; Lin Geng, third place, Spanish Prose IV; Hattie Sandoval, third place, Spanish
Prose Native Speaker; Shea Amrhein, third place, Spanish Poetry I; Jeremy Ravussin, second
place, French Extemporaneous Speaking Native Speaker; Murphey Foster, Emmita Lyford,
Mimi
DeBessonet, Kim Geaghan, Jennifer Patten, Sarah Broome, Ty Caron, Adrienne Olinde, first
place, Spanish Play.
L.W. Higgins High School: Marie Ammann, Casey Burger, Larry Downs, Lance
Fitzhenry, Christian Lewis, Melissa Robertson, third place, Spanish Play.
Mandeville High School: Lalita Naomi Mondkar, second place, Spanish Prose III; Maria
Del Pilar Vargas, third place, Spanish Poetry Native Speaker; Holly Morlas, first place, French
Poetry IV.
Mount Carmel Academy: Collen Allerton, first place, Spanish Extemporaneous
Speaking I; Megan Nolan, second place, Spanish Prose I; Emily Newell, second place, Spanish
Poetry I; Miranda Lehon, second place, Spanish Writing; Angela Boyle, third place, Spanish
Poetry IV; Gracie Guevara, third place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking II; Elizabeth Estevez,
third place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking III; Erin Callegari, second place, French Poetry
II.
Pearl River High School: Reagan Yates, first place, Spanish Poetry III.
St. Charles Catholic High School: Stacy Peterson, second place, French Prose IV;
Meghann McVey, third place, French Poetry IV; Amy Satterlee, third place, French
Extemporaneous Speaking III.
St. Joseph's Academy: Amanda Hebert, second place, Spanish Poetry III; Maghan
Cabaniss, third place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking IV; Emmanuela Mujica, third place,
Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking Native Speaker.
St. Mary's Academy: Veronica Moore, first place, French Prose I.
St. Paul School: Jason Piper, first place, Spanish Prose I; Xavier Gadarrama, first place,
Spanish Prose Native Speaker; Michael Sciortino, first place, Spanish Poetry IV; Marcelo Lopez,
first place, Spanish Poetry Native Speaker; Matt Averill, first place, Spanish Extemporaneous
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Speaking II; Tyler Sturgeon, first place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking III; Sean Colwell,
Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking IV; Conrad Seevers, first place, Spanish Extemporaneous
Speaking Native Speaker; Jerrol Murrel, second place, Spanish Prose IV; Neill Woodall, third
place, Spanish Poetry III; Justin McDaniel, third place, Spanish Extemporaneous Speaking I;
Bily Duvernay, third place, Spanish Writing; Blake Mogabgab, Brad Sieppel, Townsend
Bessent,
second place, Spanish Music; Matthew McGeachy, Cory Commander, Myles Landry, third
place,
French Music.
St. Thomas Aquinas High School: Karli Sherman, second place, Spanish Poetry II and
first place, Spanish Music; Alexandra Henchy, first place, Spanish Music; Blair Abene, second
place, French Music;
Ursuline Academy: Jessica May, second place, Spanish Prose II.
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